Senior iOS Engineer / Senior Mobile Engineer, Labs

Since our inception in 2009, Foursquare has been a leading force in changing how location information enriches our real-world and digital lives. As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. Our B2B offerings include Places (for developers), Pinpoint and Attribution (for marketers), and Place Insights (for analysts, based on the world's largest foot traffic panel). With more than 200 people across our offices in New York, San Francisco, and in sales offices around the globe, we’re dedicated to our trailblazing mission—enriching consumer experiences and informing business decisions with location intelligence.

About the Opportunity:

We’re the Foursquare Labs team, a new internal incubation team with the mission to push the boundaries of location-based technology. We work on R&D projects, prototypes, and ship products that aim to fundamentally change how people think about experiences in the physical world.

This team is responsible for shaping the future of the company’s product offerings by exploring what can be built through our deep understanding of how people move through the world. There are an infinite number of possibilities of things we can build, and we’re just getting started!

We are looking to welcome product-minded engineers to the team that will help us brainstorm, prototype, validate, ship, and iterate on crazy ideas that we come up with together. More than that, we’re looking for someone who is excited to help shape the culture of a new team and help define *how* we incubate new products and technologies.

Here are some examples of the types of things we’re looking forward to working with you on:

Jumping into a room to whiteboard through the very beginnings of ideas with a PM and designer, focusing on expanding the possibilities of what can be done rather than the constraints of what currently exists

Learning new platforms, frameworks, and technologies to advise the team on the merits of using them to evaluate and test out new concepts

Repurposing existing internal products, features, and systems to serve as building blocks for entirely different products

Being an evangelist for the Labs team and for the possibility that location technology enables through blog posts, talks, meetups, and partner meetings

About the iOS Team:

As a member of Foursquare’s iOS engineering team, you’ll be responsible for developing new features in our flagship apps Foursquare and Swarm, the core infrastructure that powers both, and new standalone apps. We’re a small team where everyone gets ownership of large feature areas and exposure to the full iOS stack, from building fun interactive animations to improving the background location technology that powers both apps and allows us to send our users contextual notifications for the places they visit in the real world. We balance a fast-paced release cycle with a passion for quality and performance.

You’ll collaborate closely with other iOS engineers to build features and make our code base better, mentor other engineers and push the boundaries of iOS applications. We work on cross-functional project teams with product managers, designers, Android engineers, and server engineers. You’ll be involved in planning new features and can have a significant impact on our product design and direction.

Qualifications:

4+ years of proven experience working on a team of iOS engineers building and maintaining apps, or impressive iOS apps that you’ve built personally

Proficient Objective-C or Swift skill

Knowledge of UIKit and Cocoa frameworks

Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)

A desire to grow and improve engineering skills and iOS knowledge

Comfort and delight in a small, fast-paced startup environment

Ideally, you’ve made contributions to one or more apps in the App Store

Experience with CoreLocation is a plus

Bonus:

You prefer to ship something and get feedback than to work on making it perfect

You have a portfolio of apps and websites you have created to showcase ideas, or to test out new technologies

You have build applications across multiple platforms, including Android or Web.

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

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